Afran and Nancy read a textbook amid the remains of their demolished homes on Mathura Road.
On Tuesday afternoon after school, class 5 student Arfan fished out a black plastic cricket bat from underneath the debris of homes that were demolished nearly two months back. Still wearing the green jacket-grey trousers uniform of Delhi Public School (DPS) Mathura Road, he swung it around, trying to hit some of the broken bricks and tiles.
The partly broken bat, said Arfan, possibly belongs to a neighbour whose demolished home is near the rubble of his own residence. Both houses were among nearly 300 structures next to DPS Mathura Road that were pulled down in an “encroachment” removal exercise ordered by the Land and Development Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on November 21.
